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Friday 03 Jul 2015 - 18:43 Makkah mean time-16-9-1436
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Tunis, (IINA) - Tunisian authorities were on Thursday hunting further suspects in the Sousse hotel attack identified by officials as part of a group trained in a Libyan extremist camp alongside gunmen who carried out a massacre at a Tunis museum, according to media reports.
Thirty-eight foreigners, most British holidaymakers, were killed in Friday's attack before the gunman was shot by police. In March, two gunmen killed 21 people at the Tunis Bardo museum, before they were also shot.
Authorities say suspects in both attacks were trained in military tactics across the border in Libya, where several extremist armed groups have profited from the country's political chaos to expand their influence and set up base.
"This is a group who was trained in Libya, and who had the same objective. Two attacked the Bardo and one attacked Sousse," Lazhar Akremi, minister for parliamentary relations, told reporters late on Wednesday. "Police are hunting for two more."
The minister said a total of 12 people had already been arrested since Friday's attack, the worst such massacre in the North African country's modern history.
Tunisian authorities say the Sousse and Bardo museum attackers all received military training late last year in a jihadist camp over the border in lawless southern Libya.
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